Just in case anyone is wondering, I’ve been house-sitting for a friend and they don’t really have their Internet connection hooked up, so I’ve been going without. Yes, I’m still alive, and no, I’m not having withdrawals. I just popped on to let everyone know I’m going to be ignoring their frantic emails and instant messages until at least Friday, maybe Saturday. No posts until then, either. Other than this one, of course.
Also, Merry Christmas! Enjoy this video in my absence.
College is fun. You can go along for a couple of years thinking you’re going to do one thing, and then you can suddenly change your mind and throw everyone for a loop (including yourself)! Great fun. Anyways, for most of my college life thus far, I was under the impression I was going to be a programmer. I didn’t really want to be one, but somehow, most of my classes ended up being of the programming persuasion. I blame it on the broad yet oddly limited major I was going after. After a rather dismal experience in the latest programming class (seriously, why they chose Java is beyond me; everyone who’s anyone uses C++…or C#…or…something else…hell, I don’t know), I decided to re-evaluate where I was going and change my major. Good thing I hadn’t yet applied for that godforsaken major, even if I do have a rather useless business statistics class in my schedule.
You may be asking, “What major are you going for now, Cody?” Actually, you’re probably asking, “Why do you think I care, Cody?” but I’m going to pretend that you’re not really asking that. Anyways, I’ve (kind of…sort of…perhaps maybe…) settled on a history major. Yes, history. Boring? Perhaps. Lame? Perhaps. Good paying? Uh, I’ll get back to you on that. It definitely seems to be something I like, though, as I’ve done the best in the history classes I’ve been taking. Maybe it’s the fact that it’s so much easier to BS a history paper than it is to BS a program. You can make things up and sound smart all you want, but if the program doesn’t compile, you suck. I mean, I suck. Whatever.
So, in case you were wondering, yes, this is a personal post. No, there’s not going to be a rant about the unfairness of grading a person down simply because they didn’t show up for four out of every five class meetings (I mean, come on, that’s so fascist and communist and stuff), and no, I’m not going to tie this in to anything remotely meaningful. It’s just me, my feelings, and you, my faithful readers. Please don’t leave me. I swear, I didn’t have anything else to write about…damn fillers.
I love taking photos. I also love sharing the photos I’ve taken. If you haven’t already, you should swing by my Flickr page and take a look around.
Yes, I know I’m shamelessly promoting my work, but hey, that’s what blogs are for, right?
I never thought I’d be around to hear that the football team of my old school (Burlington-Edison High School) would make it to the state championship game. I mean, the last time they won a state title was back in 1986, before I was even born (and long before I came to Burlington). But now? Now the team is one win away from being state champions. Amazing. And not just a little annoying that they get a bunch of good players after I graduate and go to a school that used to have a good football team (I say this in the nicest way possible: the current Husky football squad sucks, and yes, that includes Jake Locker).
Anyways, I also never thought I’d be writing a personal post again, but I don’t really have much to rant about. Bagel from RationReality wrote me an email about something I could write about, but I didn’t get back to her in time so I must now live the rest of my life regretting my inability to check my email more than twice a day. (“I coulda been a contender! …er, blogger!”)
More on the home front: know how my last post was about building a Linux distro from scratch? Well, scratch it. I don’t know what I was doing wrong, but I’ve been given more grief from that project than all my other Linux-related sojourns combined. I blame the instruction manual, which assumes too much. I can understand the assumption that the reader knows the basics of navigating in a Linux console (copying, removing, etc.) but I don’t get the assumption that the reader knows what file the manual is talking about when it refers to it by a vague name. If any of my readers has dabbled in Linux From Scratch, leave me a comment to ask me just what part of the manual I’m referring to. I’d ask about the problem in some Linux forums, but I don’t wish to be told to RTFM. I did RTFM and it didn’t help me, so STFU. Now that is a retort worthy of a nerd such as I.
After messing around with a triple-boot configuration on my laptop (Vista, XP, and Ubuntu), I decided to can the Ubuntu installation. It worked fine, but I wasn’t using it for anything. It was taking up valuable space, too, so I deleted it and allocated the space to my XP installation so I could install more games. Games > Linux.
Anyways, I’m not completely done with Linux. I came across a rather interesting-looking project called Linux From Scratch, which is basically a how-to guide on compiling your own distribution of Linux. It looks pretty daunting, but it provides a good in-depth look at how Linux distros actually work in addition to building a custom distro with everything you want in it and nothing you don’t want. Perhaps I’ll be releasing the Mad Rants Linux distro sometime in the future…
I’m a bit worried about breaking my computer again, but I do need an excuse to reinstall everything. My computer is getting gunked up. Heh, perhaps I’ll learn Dvorak while I’m at it…too bad I wouldn’t be able to come up with a sweet name for my computer like my roommate and his DvorMac.
